Re: [GZG] DS2 Cheese

["Roger Books" <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was more worried about point balance...

It could be the excess cost of Stealth is exactly balanced by the low
cost of improved FCS (1 level = 1 level) but that would be extremely fortuitous.

Roger

On 8/16/06, John K Lerchey <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Each Stealth level gives you effectively -1 to your target die size.
Superior FCS is effectively a +2 bonus to firing.

Do the math? ;)

Two levels of Stealth offsets two levels of FCS (Superior).

J

John K. Lerchey
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Carnegie Mellon University

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Roger Books wrote:

> So how many levels of stealth do you need to make up for S-FCS?  I tend to
> put 1 level of stealth on my size 4 Enh-FC (the majority of my tanks) and 2
> levels on my size 5 S-FC (the latest and greatest).
>
> Roger
>
> On 8/16/06, Oerjan Ariander < oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Glenn Wilson wrote:
>>
>> >Just playing with 'the edges' of DS2 and decided to
>> >toss out a cheese laden idea for tearing...discussing.
>> >
>> >Multiple (beyond 2) weapons per turrets.
>>
>> Under the DS2 rules-as-written, this isn't a problem. If you want to fire
>> more than one of those weapons in a single DS2 game turn they all need to
>> be of the same type and size and they all have to fire at the same target.
>> The main effect of putting three big guns (eg. HKP/5s or MDC/5s) in a
>> single turret is that you increase the odds for drawing a "Systems Down:
>> Firer" chit and knock *your own* vehicle out...
>>
>> >Extreme opposite end imagine - if the weapons per
>> >class rule was dropped with a house rule - 12 Size 1
>> >HELs (etc) would fit on a class 5 hull!  Buckets of
>> >dice DS 2 style???
>>
>> "Death of a thousand cuts" - though again the biggest effect of adding
>> extra gun barrels is that you increase the odds of drawing an SD:F chit
>> and
>> knock *your own* vehicle out :-/
>>
>> FWIW one of the "cheesiest" concepts in DS2 is to use Superior FCS while
>> ignoring Stealth: Superior FCS is seriously underpriced, while Stealth is
>> just as seriously overpriced... Enhanced FCS is underpriced as well,
>> though
>> not quite as badly as Superior :-/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Oerjan
>> oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> "Life is like a sewer.
>>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
>> -Hen3ry
>>
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